George W Clayton Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840432238
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3033554411
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,057,380
- Expenses
- $19,996,497
- Assets
- $61,702,952
- Liabilities
- $1,498,127
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM BROWNING (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM BROWNING (CEO): $326,074 total reported compensation
- PAULA SMITH (CHIEF IMPACT): $190,414 total reported compensation
- BECCA BRACY (CHIEF PEOPLE): $184,817 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At clayton, we work to foster a community characterized by trust, dignity, love, and justice with our children and families, our team members, and other partners on our campus and beyond. Continued on schedule o.
What it reported doing in 2024
External services: clayton early learning impacts the school readiness of approximately 20,000 children in Colorado annually by supporting and improving the quality of hundreds of early learning settings. Clayton is a data driven, evidenced based organization, constantly collecting data to measure how well a child is doing and how school ready they are when they leave our campus. We measure the success of our work with training and coaching programs by tracking the improved quality of teaching using Colorado's quality rating and improvement system, Colorado shines. Our all inclusive model sets us apart as we are constantly researching and evaluating our practices both internally and externally to improve the quality and effectiveness of early care and education programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.09; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.1% of revenue deployed · 79.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $15.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $326K · 24 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $733K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.